*KEE* A familiar feeling passed through my body . I energetically rose up, and next to me, Gilbert, who seems to hate me and calls me uncle, also jumped to his feet .
We looked at each other . Right now, it didn’t matter why we were sleeping in the same bed .
“Al, the feeling just now . ”
“Don’t call me Al! Yeah, I think it’s a barrier . A barrier spread for a moment and disappeared straight away . It felt like that . ”
“I see, so it is indeed a barrier . I’ve experienced passing through the barrier in Farland, so I understand it a little, but I wasn’t sure,” Gill said as he got up and combed his bed-hair . I ended up calling Gilbert, Gill . I didn’t want to because it felt like the distance between us was closing, but I was forced to . Furthermore, he said he would call me Al . Even though no one has ever called me that .
I stared blankly at Gill, who was combing his hair . Even though I woke up to soft golden hair and plump cheeks when I was in Lentforce…
“What? Am I that handsome?”
“No . ”
“At least think about it a little,” Gill immediately joked . Unlike Bart and his crew, he was somewhat creepy, and I wasn’t used to him .
“I thought that you were Lei since I’ve been with her until the other day . ”
“You two were in the same room? You shouldn’t tell Luke that . ”
“What the hell is with him? It’s like he’s competing with me . ”
“He probably is . Lei’s important to him . ”
Even if he says that they received the best treatment and education as heirs to the Four Marquises . I don’t understand why he would compete with me . No, wrong .
“This isn’t the time for this . Is the barrier being activated every morning in Sebel or something?”
“No way . They said that they haven’t actually activated the barrier box before . Actually, nothing like this has happened since I’ve been here . ”
“Then it’s a small barrier box? No, the barrier won’t reach this room unless it was activated really close to us . That means… it was Lei!”
I jumped off the bed and tried to rush out of the room .
“Gah . ” But my clothes were grabbed from behind which constricted my neck and I let out a strange voice .
“What are you doing?! Lei puts up barriers when it’s dangerous! I have to go help her!”
“Shh, be quiet . ” I stopped reflectively when Gill spoke .
“Why?”
“Calm down . Listen, what do barriers work against?”
“That’s… Hollows . ”
“The chances of Hollows appearing in the castle?”
“… None . ”
“Do you think Lei would put up a barrier when there aren’t any Hollows around?’
“… No . ”
“So, I think Lei’s probably safe . ”
Contrary to the calm Gill, I was slightly irritated .
“Then, why?”
Gill probably had an idea of what was going on and looked away awkwardly .
“Oh, Lei can make barriers, can’t she?”
“Yeah . ”
“If you knew that, wouldn’t you want to activate it, Al?”
“… No . Oh, him?”
“Probably . ”
Gill continued to grab my clothes as he looked out the door .
“They probably got carried away,” he spoke kindly as if he was worried about his real brother . For some reason, my heart felt chilled .
“But, even I haven’t been able to activate a barrier yet . Are you saying that he learnt how to do it in one night? I could believe it if you said Lei was the one who did it . ”
“Because wouldn’t your Lei get carried away and make a big barrier?”
“She would . But, she would be careful and not go crazy . ”
“Then, it’s Luke . They’re a little special . You know this too, right, Al?”
I know that Lei is special . But, even if he says they’re… I don’t know anything about Luke .
“Aren’t the Four Marquises all the same?”
“They’re not . The Lisburns and Albans have more magic than the other two Marquises . And the royal family has even more magic . And apparently, the Albans have the power to feel magic . ”
“Lei does certainly seem like she can see magic . ”
“I knew it . Luke and his father are like that too . And it’s irritating how they think it’s nothing . ” Even though he said that, he didn’t look irritated at all .
“He probably heard how to make the barrier from Lei and achieved it in one shot . How long would it take me to make a barrier like that…?”
Gill pondered . I was a little surprised by what he had said, but also a little happy . Gill was going to try it like it was natural . In other ways, it felt like he was saying that he would do his best to achieve this even if he couldn’t do it like Lei .
“Well, I can do that later . Listen, the Wester royal family should have noticed this . And magic users should have felt something too . However, Prince Hubert agreed to keep Lei’s secret, so he won’t say anything . What I mean is…”
Gill looked down on me as he grabbed my clothes and said, “Something seems to have happened, but we don’t know about it . We’re going to pretend to know nothing . ”
“Then we have to tell Lei and Luke . ”
“What do you think they’re going to do about this?” Gill asked as if he was spacing each word . I don’t know about Luke . What about Lei?
“She’ll pretend nothing happened . ”
“Right? That’s an Albans . ”
Why do you look proud?
“Now then, nothing happened . We didn’t notice anything . Let’s go back to sleep . ”
Gill quickly crawled back into bed . I went into the other bed .
“What? Come here . ”
“No . ”
“It would seem like we overslept because we stayed up late talking if you sleep here . ” It can’t be helped if he puts it that way . We decided to talk about many things until a person from the castle came to wake us up .
The royal family seemed to have noticed the barrier, and the magic users sensed something . Some noticed that it had spread outside the castle, and they asked us in a roundabout way if we knew what it was .
“I’m sensitive to those kinds of things, but I didn’t realise anything because I was sound asleep . I was busy talking with Lei . ”
I looked at Luke, who was holding his sister with great care, and they didn’t get questioned any further . Lei shrieked happily as she was being held and looked like a normal infant . No one tried to ask Lei anything .
The same goes for Bart and his crew .
“I felt something strange, did something happen in the castle?” Bart asked suspiciously, and the people in the castle could do nothing else .
It was the same with us .
“We were talking and fell asleep on the same bed before we noticed,” no one doubted what Gill said .
I thought a little . Will Wester be alright, Prince Huu? Is it really alright since this country called Wester is so easy to deceive?